Roderick Floud is Provost of London Guildhall University.

• CONCLUSION ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. INCOME AND WEALTH ; 3. UNCERTAINTY AND RISK ; 4. POPULATION CHANGE ; 5. HOUSEHOLDS: CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT ; 6. CHANGING WORKPLACES ; 7. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ; 8. MANUFACTURING ; 9. EXTRACTING ; 10. NOT MAKING, DIGGING, OR GROWING ; 11. THE OPEN ECONOMY ; 12. ECONOMIC RULES ; CONCLUSION ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. INCOME AND WEALTH ; 3. UNCERTAINTY AND RISK ; 4. POPULATION CHANGE ; 5. HOUSEHOLDS: CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT ; 6. CHANGING WORKPLACES ; 7. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ; 8. MANUFACTURING ; 9. EXTRACTING ; 10. NOT MAKING, DIGGING, OR GROWING ; 11. THE OPEN ECONOMY ; 12. ECONOMIC RULES ; CONCLUSION ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. INCOME AND WEALTH ; 3. UNCERTAINTY AND RISK ; 4. POPULATION CHANGE ; 5. HOUSEHOLDS: CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT ; 6. CHANGING WORKPLACES ; 7. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ; 8. MANUFACTURING ; 9. EXTRACTING ; 10. NOT MAKING, DIGGING, OR GROWING ; 11. THE OPEN ECONOMY ; 12. ECONOMIC RULES ; CONCLUSION

It is to Roderick Floud's credit that he does not allow his brisk survey to be sucked wholesale into the voluminous, increasingly stale literature of decline. There is much to admire in Floud's well-researched, eminently judicious treatment. His chapter on population change is as authoritative as one would expect from a pioneer of quantitative economic history, while he informs some of his more recondite topics with pleasing detail.